Analysis of two videos This is America – Childish Gambino This is America is a protest song as it addresses a lot of faults America has, such as, police brutality, racism, gun violence and how the media don’t highlight the main issues in today’s society....
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Analysis of two videos This is America – Childish Gambino This is America is a protest song as it addresses a lot of faults America has, such as, police brutality, racism, gun violence and how the media don’t highlight the main issues in today’s society. The music video starts of in a warehouse and there is where we see Childish Gambino dancing without his top on. However, he pauses and shoots a person sitting on a chair from point blank. He then performs a Jim Crow impression. Jim Crow was a character played by a Thomas Dartmouth, a white man. Jim Crow was deceived as a dim-witted black African American slave. This has now become a derogatory term for black people. After he shot that man from point blank, he is seen dancing while a choir of African American people are signing and dancing. Yet again he stops dancing and uses a semi-automatic weapon to gun down the signers. Many people linked this scene to one from 2015 when a white supremacist, Dylan Roof, shot down nine African Americ
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